Elizabeth Benedict quotes
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“What gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we all have.”
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“Talking about your hair becomes a framework for talking about your vanity, your self-esteem, your relationships with your family, your mortality.”
-- Elizabeth BenedictSource : Source: nytlive.nytimes.com
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“You can just say the word "hair" to a woman, and she tells you the story of her life.”
-- Elizabeth BenedictSource : Source: nytlive.nytimes.com
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“If your hair has never given you any trouble, if you've never had huge fights with your mother about it, then you might not have a story to tell. But I think most people do.”
-- Elizabeth BenedictSource : Source: nytlive.nytimes.com
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“I think I've been mildly obsessed with my hair. I don't think I have a hugely adversarial relationship with it. One my essay is about my decision to keep coloring my hair once it started to go gray, but once I wrote the essay - once the book was in production - I decided to go gray.”
-- Elizabeth BenedictSource : Source: nytlive.nytimes.com
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“Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.”
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“The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.”
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“Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.”
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“He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.”
Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.49, Macmillan
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